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The true doctrine of justification asserted and vindicated, from the errors of Papists, Arminians,…The true doctrine of justification asserted and vindicated, from the errours of Papists, Arminians,…
The true doctrine of justification asserted and vindicated, from the errors of Papists, Arminians, Socinians, and more especially Antinomians in XXX lectures preached at Lawrence-Jury, London / by Anthony Burgess ...The true doctrine of justification asserted and vindicated, from the errours of Papists, Arminians, Socinians, and more especially Antinomians in XXX lectures preached at Lawrence-Iury, London / by Anthony Burgess ...
London: printed by A. Miller for Tho. Underhill, 1651
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In the first place, our meaning in this Petition is, That God would not require of us the payment and satisfaction of his justice for our sins. We have a Parable,1 Luke 16.8. Of an unjust Steward, who called his Lords debtors, who bid him that owed an hundred measures of oil, set down fifty: but if God should condescend thus far to us, instead of millions of sins we owe, 2to set down but an hundred, yea, should we come down as low in the number of sins, as Abraham of his righteous men, yet that would not avail us. Yea, as long as there is but a farthing, the least sin unpaid, ⟨p. 112⟩so long are we unable to give an account to God. We therefore desire of God, that he would not call upon us to pay for the least vain thought, or idle word, much less for those more grievous sins which we have committed. As it is, Not unto us Lord, not unto us, let the glory be given: so Not of us Lord, not of us, let thy justice be satisfied.
In the first place, our meaning in this Petition is, That God would not require of us the payment and satisfaction of his justice for our sinnes. We have a Parable,1 Luke 16.8. Of an unjust Steward, who called his Lords debtors, who bid him that owed an hundred measures of oyl, set down fifty: but if God should condescend thus far to us, instead of millions of sins we owe, 2to set down but an hundred, yea, should we come down as low in the number of sins, as Abraham of his righteous men, yet that would not avail us. Yea, as long as there is but a farthing, the least sin unpaid, ⟨p. 112⟩so long are we unable to give an account to God. We therefore desire of God, that he would not call upon us to pay for the least vain thought, or idle word, much lesse for those more grievous sins which we have committed. As it is, Not unto us Lord, not unto us, let the glory be given: so Not of us Lord, not of us, let thy justice be satisfied.